Studio One
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC.
Exploration of the panic caused by the radio broadcast of H.G. Wells ""War of the Worlds.""
A conflict develops between Dr. Joseph Pearson and his young assistant, who attempts to introduce new methods in their pathology lab.
Dr. Joseph Pearson and his young assistant clash over the circumstances of a premature birth and a cancer diagnosis.
Harry Radcliff, a young British officer, sets out alone on a dangerous secret mission. He is to travel to Berlin and gain the confidence of Soviet agents by pretending to be traitor to England. But Radcliff finds himself in serious trouble when he misses an appointment with an important enemy contact. In desperation, he seeks aid from his friend Mike Fenby of the British Diplomatic Office in Berlin.
Belinda is one of the popular bachelor girls called on when guest lists are made up for Washington, D.C. parties. But beneath her gaiety, Belinda fears a life of loneliness, for she has frightened away suitors by her eagerness to marry. Then her friend Bunny introduces Belinda to handsome Jack Marshall.
A young Senate investigator, Edward Roberts, begins digging into the racket empire of Mr. Antony. Then Mr. Antony investigates Roberts' background and discovers that at one time Roberts' mother accepted help from a crooked politician. In an attempt to deter the investigation, Antony approaches Roberts with blackmail in mind.
A murder takes place in the public relations department of a motion picture company.
A young man looking for work on a family farm indicates that he is deaf and dumb but in fact suffers from a severe stuttering problem.
After years of hard work, Professor Theodore Koering, nuclear scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize. Reporters sent to interview him are surprised at his apparant lack of interest in the honor accorded him, and baffled by his refusal to cooperate for pictures and stories. Their first lead develops when Kering forbids them to interview the widow of his former assistant.
It is puzzling to the family and office friends of Letty Greene that she has little interest in men and apparently no concern over the prospect that she may never marry. But Letty has been seeing a co-worker, Will Robbins, who is unhappily married. She tries not to face the future of this romance.
In an attempt to help his shy son Frank to become more popular at school, Harry Breen suggest to Frank that he do some writing. The plot backfires when the boy embarks on a crusade to remedy juvenile delinquency. His article, naming parents as the real delinquents, appears in the local newspaper and overnight Frank becomes a national celebrity.
An Air Force crew prepares for a rugged 2-week survival course and everyone is worried.
A widower's dreams of escaping his job and family with a trip to the South Seas fall through when his spoiled irresponsible son asks him for a large sum of money.
Ben Royce prides himself on being a self-made man who has become the most powerful cattle baron in the West. He rules his family and his ranch with an iron hand, and there are many clashes between him and his foreman Jace Farrow. After a particularly bitter quarrel, Jace tells Royce that he is quitting to go into the cattle business on his own. Believing that Jace will fail on his own, Royce makes no attempt to stop him. As Jace prepares to leave, he asks Marcy Royce, Ben's daughter to go with him.
Leo is a hard-working young man who owns and operates a wholesale produce firm, and is very much in love with his pretty young wife Annabelle. He doesn't know that Annabelle has been seeing a clerk who works for him. The clerk, Frankie, plans to murder Leo and implicate Annabelle.
Little Juan and his parents have moved to a new town to escape the prejudice they encountered as Mexicans. But things go badly in the new town too, reaching a climax when Juan and two teenage friends of his disappear while visiting a canyon outside town.
A young British businessman, attempting to smuggle a watch he purchased as a gift for his wife into the country, is arrested by customs officials and sent to prison.
A convicted murderer vows that he will break out of prison and revenge himself on the people responsible for his capture. When he does escape, the police post a cordon around the home of his former girlfriend, who has married. But, despite their precautions, the girl is killed. A reporter learns that the dead girl's husband and the police chief have also been threatened.
After 20 years in exile in the United States, a royal family has hope that the monarchy will be able to return to power. But intrigue arises as someone tries to kill the queen. The prime suspect is her son, Prince Anthony, who was told that he must give up his wife if he returns to the throne.
When a man thumbs a ride and gets into an argument with the driver, he receives a 90-day jail sentence, but to his surprise, he is offered a job as counterman in a diner near the jail while serving his term, according to the ""open door"" policy of the prison.
A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indian tom-toms beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.
This episode depicts the story of Sister Mary Aquinas, who was the first nun ever to become a licensed aeroplane pilot.
A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.
A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.
Nurse Jean Horst, who works in a retarded children's home, is drawn to Reuben Widdicomb, a little boy whose mother hasn't come to visit him.
During World War II, a Jewish American soldier questions his heritage when he is thrown in a German prison camp and learns that the Jewish GI's are to be put into a separate camp.
A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.
Georgette and her little daughter arrive in a small Texas town to meet her husband, Henry, who has recently been released from prison. Georgette married Henry while he was a struggling singer, but soon after their marriage he was sent to prison for a 6-year term. Weak in character, Henry is now trying to make another start and is working as a gardener for one of the town's most trusting characters. But a new person enters Georgette's life, Slim Breedlove, a pleasant young man who offers to help her find her husband.
A story about the outlawed Irish Republican Army
A small-town postmistress, whose hopes are high when she makes her annual trip to the big city for a 3-day convention of Postal Employees, meets a middle-aged salesman and tries to encourage the acquaintanceship.
Set in a small ranch town that is suffering from drought, townspeople gather to pray for rain in the schoolhouse. There is a knock at the door and a man dressed all in white greets everyone by name. He says that his name is Mr. White and that he has been sent to help them find a well. Then another knock at the door reveals a man dressed all in black, who claims that his name is Mr. Black and that he is an angel of the Lord sent to help them also. Not knowing which man to trust, the dilemma is resolved by a ""staring match"" between the two men. In the end, the angel is revealed and water is discovered.
An American agricultural expert and his wife are sent to a Latin-American country to help with its agricultural problems. The wife is distressed with the primitive native village where they are working and she misunderstands some of the villagers' customs and traditions.
Phyllis, a girl in her 20's, is just returning from her summer vacation, during which she has fallen in love with a struggling young musician. On the bus trip home Phyllis is telling her girlfriend of the difficulty she is going to have in breaking this news to her parents. Phyllis's parents and her aunt and uncle have made Phyllis the center of their lives. In their over-concern for her, they have naturally assumed she would marry George, the boy next door, whom she has known all her life. These four and George too, are on hand to welcome Phyllis home. Soon after their initial greeting, Phyllis tells them she intends to marry the young musician. They are shocked at the news and refuse to believe there can be anything to it.
A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia, and guilt after he crashes a new jet.
An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.
Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""
Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though their families share a split-level house, their lives are miles apart: the woman is from a once-prominent southern family, and the man is an Italian immigrant.
A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.
In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.
A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.
A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.
A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier (James Gregory) is charged with a murder that was actually committed by the two MPs who arrested him. The officer risks his career in search of material that can exonerate the soldier.
Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors, but he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring kid brother will be with him.
A quick-tempered cab driver picks up what appears to be two men and a drunk. On second look the drunk proves to be a corpse.
In New York City, a 13-year-old boy discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.
A not too sharp commandant of a military academy gets into some hilarious situations when he mistakes his father's invention for a war missile.
While a man lies unconscious on the operating table, he dreams that he has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However, death follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens. The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love, forces him back to reality, at which point, he regains consciousness to find Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right.
Luke McTrigger, proprietor of the Olympia saloon and hotel, has been thinking hard and has finally come up with a sure-fire plan to win the hand of the widow Baines. Now the widow is nothing to look at, and some folks say she's a bull-headed old battle-axe, but she has an estimated fortune of $900, and that's a lot of money in the Wyoming of 1880!
A jury must reach a verdict concerning a teenaged boy accused of murder.
An irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults wages his personal war with the English language.
The life story of the famous inventor
A crusading attorney finds that there are no short cuts to justice.
A New England Christmas story
Twelve-year-old orphan Bill Caldwell is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother when his aunt and uncle go to Europe. Down on her luck in 1929 Detroit, Grandma rents out 22 rooms of her 25-room house. Every March, the circus comes to town and some of the more interesting characters stay at Grandma's. Young Bill learns much more about life interacting with his Grandma and her colorful boarders than living with his stuffy aunt and uncle.
Police fight a desperate battle against time to prevent a would-be suicide from killing not only himself, but also the other tenants in the building.
In a shabby western town about 1900, a stranger gets off the train, goes to the sheriff's office, and kills him. His mild-mannered son takes over his position and tries to find the killer and avenge his father's death.
The brain of a billionaire who dies in an accident is kept alive and makes plans for global domination.
In 1948, while the captain of Czechoslovakia's championship hockey team is in Moscow, Russia annexes his home land. On his return, he and his fiancee plot to escape.
Irene is the plain niece of an elder statesman, who comes to Washington to aid her uncle. She seems an ideal match for a bachelor senator up for re-election. But her uncle and husband-to-be don't realize just how ideal she really is!
Mr. Brimmer did not go over that seaside cliff unaided. Sinister Cousin Julian from South Africa gave Mr. Brimmer a bit of help.
A mild-mannered bookkeeper, belittled by his family and his coworkers, is to get his picture in the paper when he is named his company's head bookkeeper. The picture is in the paper all right, but he is mistakenly named the chairman of the city's anti-vice crusade.
The drab companion of an elderly hypochondriac is transformed into a lovely woman when she falls in love with a young man she met at the opera, but she lies to him about herself, claiming she's the educated daughter of a famed operatic diva.
A man named Parker prefers the companionship of the pigeons in the park to that of the human race. One day, as he sits feeding his friends, Parker is approached by a gentleman who wishes to rehabilitate him.
A scholarly officer, who has spent his 3 years of military service at a secluded desk job, is assigned to shepherd some 600 troops from California to New York at the end of World War II.
In the early 1900s, a man who is about to take over the family investment firm finds that his father has played fast and loose with some of his clients' money.
An adaptation of the dystopic novel concerning one man's rebellion against a totalitarian society
A modern dress adaptation of the classic story of a terminally ill prostitute who falls in love with a man of means.
The story about how the success of Axelrod's play ""The Seven Year Itch"" affected him
A modernized musical of the classic story
A Brooklyn bus driver drives off to Miami in a city bus and is apprehended by the police.
A group of school children perform what appears to be a play, but it progresses into a trial when the school janitor is accused of murder.
An unemployed writer working as a press agent for an American dress designer in Italy becomes innocently involved in smuggling. [RF]
An accountant meets an aged millionaire, who appoints him executor of a trust fund for the millionaire's dog, Shaftsbury.
An anonymous letter writer creates fear and havoc in the lives of three sisters.
A writer's undercover assignment backfires when he cannot produce the evidence needed to free himself from jail.
A story about Russian emigrants
Major Gaylord recounts an experience during World War II when he was obliged to fire on an American soldier in the dead of night on a Pacific island.
Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
Grace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.
A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
An American spy and his wife, with the help of the widow of a Swiss scientist, compete with enemy agents to find the scientist's hidden formula for a psycho-active gas that erases the will to resist.
The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
A happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.
The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
A young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.
Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.
A prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
The story of General Andreas della Rovere who was imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired fellow prisoners, despite the fact that he never existed!
A western comedy about the dingy wife of an outlaw who takes the rap for him and goes to prison, coming home with some new ideas.
A Czech ballerina, whose family is still trapped behind the Iron Curtain, is blackmailed into trapping a British spy for the Russians, but the spy is really a double agent.
The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during The Revolutionary War.
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
The friend of a pleasant minister has invented a camera that takes a strange kind of photo, and with it, he plans to put Germany in a position to rule the world.
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters
The story of young, talented ballet dancers
The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma.
An American journalist falls in love with a Londoner.
The mayor's daughter, who is kidnapped, falls in love with one of her captors.
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances
A group of Marines reminisce about home as they try to hold onto a North Korean mountain pass in 1950.
In the Middle East, Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure, gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room during an important conference, which an underground organization is planning to sabotage.
Classic tale of a modern New Englander who travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Lincoln
A whodunnit set in a boarding house where fat, jolly, and crippled Mr. Otis is found murdered
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
After a doctor is acquitted of poisoning his evil invalid wife, he runs into complications in his attempt at a new life in Ireland.
A French inspector and his Polish assistant must stop a murderer in Paris.
The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer
The story of Sister Elizabeth Wheeler, who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea to help the British wounded. Dismissed for speaking out against the atrocities, she was later honored by Robert E. Lee for her service to the Confederate Army.
A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
Story about submariners
Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 1 concentrates on Meg's story.
Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 2 tells Jo's story.
An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them
The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.
A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
A detective investigates the murder of a millionaire, which was witnessed by a femme fatale.
A sea captain returns home to post-war Germany to find it in ruins, his shell-shocked fiancee missing a leg. When a lovely Latvian refugee stows away on his ship, he decides to help her.
A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife.
Updating of the Shakespearean play from Roman time to Fascist Italy.
Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder.
British sleuth Mr. Mummery is out to catch a cook who disappeared after poisoning her guests. Wait a minute, Mr. Mummery just hired a new cook!
The murder of a ventriloquist's dummy
A war artist, Dick Helder, follows the British army into battle and experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
A murderer is found dead and his killer is sought.
Story of a crippled medical student's romance with a heartless waitress in 1910 Paris.
A wealthy eccentric Italian gentleman believes himself to be 11th-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
A young nurse's romance is blighted by a spirit. An early appearance by Grace Kelly.
A widower bringing up four daughters must deal with their eventual rebellion.
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
An American surgeon falls in love with a flighty British actress.
A freighter captain agrees to take on an innocent looking passenger who proves to be a fountain of evil and impossible to get rid of.
Classic tale of adultery and betrayal.
Gulley Jimson, a poor antisocial painter just out of jail, tries to convince people to pay him for paintings they didn't actually commission.
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
The spoiled son of a politician learns a lesson when he is accused of murder.
A modern dress version of the Shakespeare classic
The murder of a boarding house lodger is investigated.
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
Madame Flora conducts bogus seances to bilk grieving parents, but during one seance she feels hands around her neck and panics.
A story about psychological breakdown and recovery
A psychopathic killer escapes from prison and comes under the care of a noted psychiatrist.
The happy-go-lucky Johnny Case, a self-made man with the dream of making just enough money to retire on and then traveling around the world, proposes to the lovely Julia in Lake Placid but later discovers she's the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play
When a young American inherits a house in London, he travels back in time to the Revolutionary War and encounters his ancestors.
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play about Roman politics
When his boss, a corrupt politician, is accused of murder, a man hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.
A true believer brings others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity of her own faith, back to first principles.
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
A haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small Jewish town in Eastern Europe. The restless spirit of a dead man enters the body of the woman he was pledged to marry.
A naive Schenectady shipping clerk comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, befriends a one-hit wonder composer, and meets the girl of his dreams.
| Location | United States of America |
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| Language | English |
| Release | 1948-11-07 |
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